… are you saying that the film National Treasure lied to me about the Knights Templar? They didn’t write a treasure map on the Declaration of Independence?? I am devastated.
In all seriousness though, Medieval Acre is SO cool, my wife and I got to see it a few years ago. Didn’t notice the lattices though!
From a history of cartography perspective, treasure maps are really, really uncommon. It's like most people who had treasure didn't *want* other people to find it! On which subject, workers on a church in Germany recently found four bags of gold stuffed into the legs of a statue to hide it from Swedish troops during the Wars of Religion: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32816213/gold-coins-found-stashed-statue-leg/. How cool would that map have been if somebody drew it?
Still, I've never seen the back of the Declaration of Independence, so who knows? I still believe that One Eyed Willie's treasure is floating somewhere out on the ocean :).
(And again, more seriously...) I would absolutely love to visit medieval Acre again. Sites like that are just so dense. Writing this was interesting for going back to my own pictures and the website: even parts I had seen I'd apparently managed to forget :D!
… are you saying that the film National Treasure lied to me about the Knights Templar? They didn’t write a treasure map on the Declaration of Independence?? I am devastated.
In all seriousness though, Medieval Acre is SO cool, my wife and I got to see it a few years ago. Didn’t notice the lattices though!
From a history of cartography perspective, treasure maps are really, really uncommon. It's like most people who had treasure didn't *want* other people to find it! On which subject, workers on a church in Germany recently found four bags of gold stuffed into the legs of a statue to hide it from Swedish troops during the Wars of Religion: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32816213/gold-coins-found-stashed-statue-leg/. How cool would that map have been if somebody drew it?
Still, I've never seen the back of the Declaration of Independence, so who knows? I still believe that One Eyed Willie's treasure is floating somewhere out on the ocean :).
(And again, more seriously...) I would absolutely love to visit medieval Acre again. Sites like that are just so dense. Writing this was interesting for going back to my own pictures and the website: even parts I had seen I'd apparently managed to forget :D!